Authors

Michael J. McGuinness and Manuel A. Orillac are partners in the Mergers & Acquisitions team at Shearman & Sterling LLP and are located in New York and Abu Dhabi, respectively. Kristopher Ferranti, Kagayaki Funakoshi and Cynthia Phillips contributed research to this article.

Alex Vatanka is a scholar at Middle East Institute and editor of Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst.

Marcel Biato is an assistant to the chief foreign policy advisor of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Carlos Lauría is the Americas Senior Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Vanda Felbab-Brown is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.  She is also a Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Gregory Meeks is the U.S. Representative for New York’s 6th Congressional District and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Daniel Wilkinson is deputy director of the Americas at Human Rights Watch.

Kevin Casas-Zamora is the secretary-general of International IDEA and a former vice president of Costa Rica.

Jaime Alemán is the Ambassador of Panama to the United States.

Alma Guillermoprieto has written about Latin America for more than 20 years. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her latest book, Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution was published in 2004.

Luis Oganes is the head for Latin America in the Emerging Markets Research Group at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ferentz Lafargue is a faculty member in the History and Social Science Department at Georgetown Day School. He was previously an assistant professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts in New York City.

Roberto (Bear) Guerra is an award-winning photographer whose work focuses on humanitarian, environmental and social issues around the world, with a focus on Latin America. His images and photo essays have been published and exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Currently based in Oakland, CA, Bear and his wife, journalist Ruxandra Guidi, also collaborate … Read more

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is a member of the committee and of the Subcommitee on the Western Hemisphere.